The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1887-07-20
Farm, Garden and Household.
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Barley is good horse feed.

Barley IS good horse iced.
Raising poor crops is the heaviest tax
,ur farmers ay."-PrDf. Iazenby.
Prot. Sanborn considers skim milk and
meals the most effective rations for swine.
By the methods of planting adopted by
Mr., Robert Douglas, three persons-two
men anda boy-plant 1900 trees in a ten
hour day. i
The daily growth of hogs increases IL n
til the animals reach 200 pounds or more.
Cattle, on the contrary, make a smaller
per dav as they become larger.
Hang your scythe out of the reach Of
the little ones. In one day last week we
saw the record of two serious cuttings as
the result of scythe handling by child
rem.
Young turkeys are often killed by
overlooking. Give them a little cracked
grain and une mcai of worms and insects
per day, keeping the hen confined and
letting them run where there is not too
much grass to wet them. They should
be kept under shelter entirely on rainy
dave. Before they are a fortnight old
the hen can be allowed to run, but shr
should not he let out in the morning I'm
til after the dew is off the grass.
Experiments for four years at the Ohio
station give the best wheat harvest when
but five pecks are snwn TO the acre.
This means that is a rule grain in is scat.
tered too thicklv. Or. I.azenby remarks
that a peck of seed to the acre
amounts to little on an individual farm,
but the sowing of Il peck an acre throuI Oh
out all the wheat fields of Ohio would
mean $500, 600 divided among the farmers
of hat state, and if the yield would
thereby be increased but one busliel per
acre, this would add $2,0Oo,OOO more to
the income of Ohio agriculture.
A wealthy English syndicate is about
to erect extensive -four mills at Rio
Janeiro, South America. If successful
we may expect to see other immense
Touring mills established in the Argen.
tine Confederation. These will bring
South American flour as well MS wheat in
competition with the United States
articles. With Australia, New Zealand,
India and South America, crowding the
breadstufis markets of the world, ON
petition will be still more active than
heretofore and he must be sanguine in
deed who expects the days of dollar land
over wheat to return to bless the grow
ers ofthe Northwest. OF course a gener.
al disaster to the wheat crops OF the rest
of the world might restore high prices
here temporarily, but the lesson for oul
Western wheat growers from these facts,
is diversified husbandry Farmer.
1t seems reasonable to suppose that
less food is required to keep a 70O-pound
COW than one that weighs from lC0l t'
1900 pounds, and If We can get from thes,
small COWS, as | believe we can on M
average, and us | know l do, so per cent
more better than from the large unes
certainly the small lass of old nw br,
in the final Iisn 'sall Of them has iicti
made good several times over during II.
life ofthe cow. ] am not arguing agains
any other breed, but only trying to SHOW
that the Jersys arr the breed for III,
small farmer and %dairyman, and tellni
that | have found them profitable am
satisfactory Waldo L. Brown.
An extra heavy feed after a protracte'
fast, so far from rpmcdying the waste {
strength, only aggravates the evil b
9 overlooking the stomach and thus int,
fering with digestion. A careful owne
, ofhorscs will study the constitution G
eaci animal in his service and regulat
its food accordingly. Horses which scou
after watering should only be given
small quantity of good water, but at IN
frequent intervals. Should this trea
ment not succeed, a small norton
wheaton meal may be mixed with III
water. Very often securing is the resu
of m irritable state of the bowels, cause
by indigestion. In this case, if tn
horse be otherwise in good health,
c mild purgative may be gwen, to be 70
lowed by a dose of oil.-The Farmer.
: Cut wheat early because ~ the ,r,i
when in the doughty state contains Il
largest proportion of starch and glutel
the two nutritious substances oil whic
it is principally composed. Because (:
= the bran is the thinest a. the dough
stage. When the gram hardens the hn
t%hickens. This is the natures effort I
!, put on the seed a firm protection, an
il the last work she docs IN perlectlni
grain. For seed wheat this is all right
nature makes no mistaSe-but for iior
the thick huil Is a disadvantage. B'
: cause (Sl the straw OF early cut grain
: heavier, brighter and ntain MOI